Jennifer Coulson is studying the population ecology of the
Swallow-tailed Kite. She is trying to determine: the
geographic range of this species within Louisiana and Mississippi,
the current population size, and factors that may limit the current
population size. Aspects of her study include nest monitoring, a
radio-telemetry based survivorship study, characterization of
nesting and roosting habitat, and aerial surveys of premigration
roosts.